THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 36 1 



its origin. In 1871, the American Pomological Society listed Transparent 

 in its catalog as worthy of culture. The color of this variety leads to the 

 suspicion that Reine Claude is not the only parent. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; branches slender, 

 ash-gray, roughish towards the trunk, with small lenticels; branchlets above medium 

 in thickness, short, with intemodes of average length, green changing to brownish-red 

 often retaining some green, dull, pubescent, with small lenticels; leaf-buds of medium 

 size and length, conical, somewhat appressed. 



Leaves folded upward, obovate or oval, two and one-half inches wide, five inches 

 long, above average thickness; upper surface rugose, nearly glabrous, with a grooved 

 midrib; lower surface pubescent; apex abruptly pointed or acute, base acute, margin 

 often doubly serrate or crenate, with small, dark glands; petiole seven-eighths inch 

 long, thick, pubescent, faintly tinged red, glandless or with from one to four rather 

 large, globose or oval, greenish-brown glands usually on the stalk. 



Season of bloom medium, short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one- 

 eighth inches across, white; borne in scattering clusters on lateral buds and spurs, 

 singly or in pairs; pedicels five-eighths inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; calyx- 

 tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, lightly pubescent, glandular- 

 serrate, reflexed; petals obovate, crenate, tapering to short, broad claws; anthers 

 yellow with a tinge of red; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter 

 than the stamens, often in pairs. 



Fruit late, intermediate in length of ripening season; one and three-eighths 

 inches by one and one-half inches in size, oblate, compressed; halves equal; cavity 

 wide, flaring; suture a line; apex flattened or depressed; color red over a dark amber- 

 yellow ground, mottled, covered with thin bloom; dots numerous, grayish or light 

 russet, conspicuous, decreasing in number but increasing in size towards the cavity; 

 stem thick, three-quarters inch long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, 

 adhering but slightly; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, fibrous, tender, very sweet, aromatic, 

 pleasant; very good to best; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, 

 roundish-oval, turgid, blunt at the base and apex, with slightly pitted surfaces; ventral 

 suture, wide, blunt, faintly grooved; dorsal suture with a deep groove of medium width. 



UNGARISH 



Primus domestica 



1. la. Agr. Col Bui. 50, 51. 1886. 2. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 86. 1890. 3. Mich. Sta. Bui. 118: 

 53. 1895. 4- Kan. Sta. But. 101:117, 119, 120 fig. 1901. 5. Waugh Plum Cult. 109. 1901. 6. 

 Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 102. 1902. 7. Budd-Han.sen Am. Hort. Man. 326. 1903. 8. Can. Exp. 

 Farms Rpt. 433. 1905. 



Hungarian 3, ?6. Hungarian Prune 3. Hungarian Prune 4. Hungary i. Ungarische 8. 

 Ungarish Prune 2, 7. Quetsche de Hongrie i. Zwetsche Ungarischc i. 



Budd's Ungarish as groMTi at the New York State Experiment Sta- 

 tion is nearly identical with the Italian Prune. The only differences to 



